No Graphic Organizer for Week 2 Reading - please bullet some main ideas from the reading & compare the suggestions for teaching and learning science to how you learned science (science autobiography). 1 - 1 1/2 pages.
Week 4 - Planning an Inquiry Lesson
Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article.
Fire up the Inquiry by Kimberly Lott, March 2011
The Many Levels of Inquiry by Heather Banchi & Randy Bell, October 2008
Week 5 - Assessment
Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article.
A is For Assessment by Shannon McNair, September 2004
Seamless Assessment by Mark Volkmann & Sandra Abell, May 2003
Week 6 - Scientific Skills and Dispositions Each member of your table group should select a different article to read
Activities that Really Measure Up, by Lorraine Smith, Donna Sterling, & Patricia Moyer-Packenham, October 2006
Beyond Predictions, by Dennis Smithenry & Jenny Kim, October 2010
Inference or Observation? by Kevin Finson, October 2010
Making Thinking Visible, by Roxanne Greitz Miller & Robert C. Calfee, December 2004
Personalized Inquiry, by Patricia Simpson, December 2010
Week 8 - Extensions within and Beyond the Classroom (completed for Week 8)
Select two of the following articles to read. If you are "sharing" articles with others please give them different articles to read so we can share from multiple articles.
Get "Em Outside, by Lisa Weise, March 2012
A Transforming Partnership, by Susan Black, January 2006
Journey into the Five Senses, by Susan McWilliams, February 2003
Science Alive!, by Kay Tally-Foos, January 2005
Simple Machines in the Community, by Robert Bryan,Aris Laroder, Deborah Tippins, Meliza (Melai) Emaz, and Ryan Fox, March 2008
Take the Science Fair Online, by James Tubbs, December 2007
The Built Environment, by Gregory Benedis-Grab, February 2010
The Farmer in the Lab, by Jeanine Huss and Cheryl Baker, February 2010
For Week 9 - Science for Diverse Learners (completed for meeting on April 4)
Select one of the following articles to read
Girls in Science Rule! by Jan Moore, April 2003
Science Centers For All, by Leslie Irwin, Christine Nucci, & Carol, Beckett, February 2003
Teaching Science to English-as Second-Language-Learners, by Gayle Buck, November/December 2000
No Graphic Organizer for Week 2 Reading - please bullet some main ideas from the reading & compare the suggestions for teaching and learning science to how you learned science (science autobiography). 1 - 1 1/2 pages.
Week 3 - Inquiry and the Nature of Science
Read: HelpingSsUnderstandNOS.pdf &
Or Read TheNOSChallenge.pdf
Week 4 - Planning an Inquiry Lesson
Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article.
Fire up the Inquiry by Kimberly Lott, March 2011
The Many Levels of Inquiry by Heather Banchi & Randy Bell, October 2008
Week 5 - Assessment
Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article.
A is For Assessment by Shannon McNair, September 2004
Seamless Assessment by Mark Volkmann & Sandra Abell, May 2003
Week 6 - Scientific Skills and Dispositions
Each member of your table group should select a different article to read
Week 8 - Extensions within and Beyond the Classroom (completed for Week 8)
Select two of the following articles to read. If you are "sharing" articles with others please give them different articles to read so we can share from multiple articles.
For Week 9 - Science for Diverse Learners (completed for meeting on April 4)
Select one of the following articles to read